The visitors and residents of Strolen's Citadel are always moving about and delving into places once abandoned. Many a restless adventurer has continued to explore those areas where all was thought to be known and come out with small treasures, arcane lore or hints of previously unknown dangers. Such it was when a small group of companions went on a short excursion to explore the ruins of the West Tower, the initial location for the original Citadel, which was simply a small guard tower before the trade routes changed and it lost its strategic merit. The West Tower lies about a days journey in a lesser traveled portion of the land. The area holds only some small patches of woods which isn't very great for hunting...or much else. So, it is no wonder that not many go far out of their way to visit the area.

On this trek, however, the crafty ranger in the group noticed a small rivulet that dug a small rut through the stone and disappeared beyond some decayed granite. With a mix of magic and brawn, the crew was able to excavate a crevasse that revealed a tight, tomb-like entrance. Through a short series of failed attempts, they eventually got the smaller of their crew to squeeze through. The entrance was dangerously cramped with little ability to widen it without a severe threat of a cave-in. After a couple dozen feet down dirt, rock and some damaged stairs, a small store room was revealed!

THE QUESTQuest of the 5's

1. A Submission that links to 5 other subs that are older than 5 years.- The key is to use 5 older submissions to build yours and use their ideas inside your own submission.- You can use more than one submission to do it if you like, as long as 5 submissions are eventually linked to your new subs.- Use the Freetext Strolenati Guild on these subs.2. Comment and Vote on 10 submissions that are over 5 years old.3. Comment and Vote on 10 submissions by 5 different Authors that are no longer active.- Bonus stat points (2) if that author actually comes back after you comment on it!

Stat Bonus Reward: 5 stat points and you earn another level.

Don't forget to pledge yourself to this Quest by replying to this thread and updating your own Quest thread on your successes!

Good Luck!

To clarify:Each numbered item is a separate tasking. No overlapping of comments between 2 and 3, you need to comment and vote on 20 submissions.

On The Submission, the key is at least one new submission. If you can link to 5 old subs from the one submission in a quality way, then go for it. -Or- you can write more than one new submission and link back as much as you want. Write 3 subs, linking 2, 2 and 1. Or 2 subs linking 4 in one and 1 in the other, or 5 subs with 1 link each. As long as you get 5 old links in any number of subs, you are perfect. I don't care if the subs are linked elsewhere or anything else, the only rules are as stated, the sub has to be older than 5 years, everything that old is fair game.

Not active is a red activity status on the left stat bar. Ignore anything else, if they are red, they are inactive.A returning member is one that posts any written communication MINUS THE CHATS. Comments, forum, sub, whatever. The return will NOT cancel out any subs of theirs you used for the quest. (That would be messed up, you commented all over their stuff, they come back, now none of it counts because their activity turns green again.)

3. Comment and Vote on 10 submissions by 5 different Authors that are no longer active.- Bonus stat points (2) if that author actually comes back after you comment on it!

What are the requirements for an author to be "no longer active"? Last Sojourn? Last Submission? Likewise, what are the requirements for a "comeback" -- are we talking a full submission or a forum post?

Before I jump into this, I need a clarification on rules:When you say more than 1 sub can be used to link to 5 sub older than 5 years, is there a max. cap? Can one write 5 subs that each links to a sub that's at least 5 years old to fulfill the requirements for this particular Quest?

As far as I understand it, this is like the 5in1 Quest (where you write 1 sub that incorporates 5 existing sub eg. you write a dungeon sub and you incorporate 5 subs from other ppl on various items, creatures that can be encountered, NPCs that form part of your party etc. OR you write a massive plot sub that involves adventures at locations posted by someone else, add some NPCs/lifeform encounters based from other ppl's etc.). Hope that's clear enough (Sometimes my writing lacks clarity).

The 5 in 5 part comes from the additional requirement that the 5 subs all have to be more than 5 years old. At the same time, Strolen has also relaxed the challenging nature of the 5in1 in that you don't have to use just 1 sub to incorporate the 5 older than 5 year subs. I'm checking with Strolen to see whether he has in mind a max sub. cap or not on this respect i.e. can you submit 5 subs that each link to 1 older than 5 year sub and have that count?

I refuse to acknowledge it. And if I do, I refuse to remember it. And if anybody shows proof, I will say it was well earned and then promptly forget it again. This is all for the protection of my self esteem.